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The Quiet American, Adam Hurt, Beth Hartness

When: Fri., Nov. 8, 8 p.m. 2013
Price: $8-16

The new LP from The Quiet American, the husband-and-wife duo of Aaron and Nicole Keim, is called Wild Bill Jones. It turns the classic folk song about a bad cad brought to his death into a ponderous and empathetic song cycle, using gospel standards and old ballads and tender originals. The most pleasant surprise, though, comes when they sweetly sing Daniel Johnston's "True Love Will Find You in the End." Like The Handsome Family before them, the pair proclaims that the best keepers of traditional music know it is an extant continuum.
—Grayson Haver Currin